Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), both income inequality and poverty are considered for … the crisis - in 2009 - inequality dropped, and it increased afterwards. Poverty was not affected very much by economic …

macroeconomics and income inequality on the other hand. For this purpose, several estimation equations are derived by econometric … unemployment rates. While the measured income inequality is upwards directly (exogenously) driven by demographic ageing, the … correlated with income inequality, and regarding economic growth a (slightly) concave effect upon income inequality has been …

A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We …

time from the sample. The paper develops fast algorithms for jackknifing inequality indices with only a few passes through …

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality …

on inequality and progressivity become substantially lower when payroll taxes are reduced, which is due to increased work …

This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …

modest increase in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient. However, we also document a … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …